| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | James Thomson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Mary Hutchinson | ?James Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus... | | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank ve... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wante... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Liberty, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | W Thomson | [essay in Revue des Cours] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary, William and Emma commenced their readings of Thomson.' | Mary, William and Emma Cole | Thomson | The Seasons [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Thomson | A System of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".' | Joseph Hunter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson' | Beanlands group | James Thomson | The Castle of Otranto OR To Fortune | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | James Thomson | [a tragedy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Thomson | The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be... | Catherine Austen | James Thomson | Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 28 March 1828:
'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a r... | Walter Scott | James Thomson | Tales of an Antiquary | Print: Book |